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...make that happen, Idei is rumbling through Sony's management ranks like a temblor. He has already brought down Sony's board of directors, reducing its size while adding three outsiders. Last week the company announced another restructuring, giving more heft to its broadcasting business and creating a new company called Digital Network Solutions Co. Catchy...
...best films of 1995 because it achieved a refreshing balance between pulp tragedy and true-love lyricism. Although his follow-up One Night Stand has much in common thematically with Leaving Las Vegas, and once again showcases Figgis' stylish direction, it lacks the earlier film's complexity and emotional heft (not to mention a powerhouse performance from a great actor like Nicolas Cage...
...makes its debut this week, will battle it out for viewers and good stories with no fewer than five other TV newsmagazines that are already cramping network television's prime-time schedule. If, during his 15-year tenure on the Today show, Gumbel did not always display the intellectual heft or consistent coolheadedness of such newsmen as Tim Russert or Ted Koppel (the interviewer with whom he is too often favorably compared), he did manage to brand himself as television's most engagingly willful journalist. And beyond offering the intense presence of Gumbel, Public Eye will distinguish itself...
...power on Wall Street resides with money managers, who control huge and growing pools of cash amid an unprecedented wave of investment by the American public. A flick of some fund manager's wrist can send $100 million barreling in or out of a single stock. That kind of heft flattens a lot of resistance...
...real job of the affable Berger is to be Mr. Inside, the daily consensus builder brokering honestly among competing interests from State, Defense, the intelligence community, the NSC staff. He'll be there to get the job done. This rumpled trade lawyer lacks the intellectual heft of Lake but is a better bureaucratic synthesizer, a noted detail man, and he is well liked by just about everyone in the Administration...